Rav Kook in Orot HaTeshuva says that the initial sparks of Teshuva, repentance, are undetectable, existing far beneath the ...

For this reason, it is essential for us as individuals to perform the acts and the duties enumerated by our Sages as inherent in the process of teshuva, because it is through these acts that we ...

Our time is one of great upheaval. Presently, Israel is defending itself from enemies bent on destroying the Jewish State, Heaven forbid. While we know that this war has come to advance the ...

Rabbi Kook teaches that penitence which relates only to personal wrongdoing is incomplete because the Teshuva of each individual Jew is actually only a part of a much greater National Teshuva of ...

(Devarim 31:17) The Ramban expounds further that although the lack of a total confession inhibits complete teshuva, the regret for one’s sins is powerful enough to alleviate the severe ...

Teshuva thus conceived is tremendously empowering ... which is presenting a special program in Hebrew on September 25, in Jerusalem, in conjunction with Hadar, about Heshbon HaNefesh.

How do we reconcile the deeply personal journey of Yom Kippur with the overwhelming collective experiences of the past year?

Themes of transparency and accountability arise in my mother’s Rosh Hashanah Seder and High Holidays Haggadah’s series of ...

The holiday par excellence of repentance and introspection, Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish equivalent of January 1. This year, ...

The Torah portion for this week, Ha’azinu, is rather short – totaling just 52 verses. According to tradition, the poem which ...

CHARLIE: The dates of all our festivals come from the Hebrew calendar ... So anybody that would hear it, would remember to do teshuva, to repent, to return to their maker for a good year ahead.

As we celebrate the Hebrew New Year Oct. 2-5, Portland's Jewish community and the city's leaders need to work toward a return to our shared roots. The Hebrew New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is celebrated ...